Use your Facebook login and see what your friends are reading and sharing.
AdamWatson's Documents
Excerpt From Vernon Parrington Jr's American Dreams
Excerpt from Vernon L. Parrington Jr.'s American Dreams: A Study of American Utopias. Menasha, WI: George Banta Publishing Company, 1947. Contains an excerpt from Mark Twain’s short story sketch / essay “The Curious Republic of Gondour†(1875). From the hyperessay “Castles in the Air: Utopian Fiction and Twain, 1871-1891†by Adam Watson. First published online in 2001. Author website: www.adamwatson.org.
Category:School WorkReads:306Uploaded:06 / 27 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionExcerpts From William Morris's News From Nowhere
Excerpts from William Morris’s News from Nowhere, or an Epoch of Rest: Being Some Chapters From a Utopian Romance. 1891. Ed. Krishan Kumar. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge UP, 1995. The following footnote of Krishan Kumar is a good summary of the Pre-Revolution and the Revolution of 1952, which resulted in the socialist's two year Civil War. The ending of the novel is Guest's heartbreak of waking from his utopian dream. As Kumar notes, the character of Julian West in Looking Backward thinks he aw
Category:School WorkReads:572Uploaded:06 / 27 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionExcerpt From Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward
Excerpt from Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward 2000-1887 (1888). Cambridge, Ma.: Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1976. Postscript, pages 312-313. From the hyperessay “Castles in the Air: Utopian Fiction and Twain, 1871-1891†by Adam Watson. First published online in 2001. Author website: www.adamwatson.org.
Category:School WorkReads:431Uploaded:06 / 26 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionExcerpt From Anna Bowman Dodd's the Republic of the Future
Excerpt from Anna Bowman Dodd’s The Republic of the Future (1887). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House / Gregg Press, 1970. From the hyperessay “Castles in the Air: Utopian Fiction and Twain, 1871-1891†by Adam Watson. First published online in 2001. Author website: www.adamwatson.org.
Category:School WorkReads:172Uploaded:06 / 26 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionExcerpts From Edward Bulwer-Lytton's the Coming Race
Excerpts from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race. Edinburgh and London, England: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871. In this passage, the narrator reveals what happens when “vril†is discovered: In this passage, the use of vril as a weapon is discussed. Bulwer-Lytton sounds as if he is describing a nuclear ICBM: From the hyperessay “Castles in the Air: Utopian Fiction and Twain, 1871-1891†by Adam Watson. First published online in 2001. Author website: www.adamwatson.org.
Category:School WorkReads:251Uploaded:06 / 26 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionThe Coming Race (CITA Page 2)
Bulwer-Lytton's "The Coming Race" Page 1 of 6 Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race Story Summary The first-person narrator tells his story of his yesteryears. The reader discovers at the end of the novel that the narrator has been "little invited and little tempted to talk of the rovings and adventures of my youth" (Bulwer-Lytton 291); however, he wants to share his tale after his doctor diagnoses an illness "which . . . at any moment [could] be fatal" (292). The Coming Race is the written
Category:School WorkReads:800Uploaded:06 / 26 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionNews From Nowhere (CITA Page 5)
William Morris's News From Nowhere Page 1 of 4 William Morris's News From Nowhere But Aunt Helena never liked discussion of anything (when Sally gave [Clarissa] William Morris, it had to be wrapped in brown paper). There they sat, hour after hour, talking in her bedroom at the top of the house, talking about life, how they were to reform the world. They meant to found a society to abolish private property, and actually had a letter written, though not sent out. The ideas were Sally's, of
Category:School WorkReads:1,499Uploaded:06 / 26 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionLooking Backward (CITA Page 3)
Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward 2000-1887 Page 1 of 4 Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward 2000-1887 Story Summary The book is presented as a paper presented to the "Historical Section Shawmut College, Boston, December 26, 2000" by Julian West (Bellamy 93). He flashes back to tell the story of his life, "in the form of a romantic narrative" (94). West is a young, rich Bostonian in the year 1887. He is engaged to a beautiful woman, Edith Bartlett, and has not a care in the world for the suf
Category:School WorkReads:786Uploaded:06 / 26 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionLetter to Sylvester Baxter From Mark Twain (CITA)
Twain Letter to Sylvester Baxter, Nov.20, 1889 Page 1 of 2 Letter to Sylvester Baxter, Nov. 20, 1889 (By Mark Twain) From Albert Bigelow Paine, ed., Mark Twain's Letters (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Yankee was now ready for publication, and advance sheets were already in the reviewers' hands. Just at this moment the Brazilian monarchy crumbled, and Clemens was moved to write Sylvester Baxter, of the Bost
Category:School WorkReads:473Uploaded:06 / 26 / 2008ShareAdd to collectionCastles in the Air Index of Resources
Utopian Essay: Index of Resources Page 1 of 1 Index of Resources Photograph of Mark Twain statue, in Riverview Park, Hannibal, Missouri (Twain's boyhood town). Photograph of Twain's Hartford, Connecticut mansion, where he and his family lived from 1874 to 1891. His next door neighbor was Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin). An excerpt from Twain's "The Curious Republic of Gondour," a three page sketch published anonymously in The Atlantic Monthly in 1875. It was, in essence, a short
Category:School WorkReads:761Uploaded:06 / 26 / 2008ShareAdd to collection
